Our new paper is out in New Phytologist! We describe how the Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipAV suppresses plant immunity by directly interfering with key defense regulators. 🧵👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉 Thrilled to announce that CoBEPP — Using conserved bacterial effectors to probe plant-pathogen interactions — has been funded by @ageinves.bsky.social & @cienciagob.bsky.social! Grateful for the support to launch my first project @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social , exploring effector functions! 🌱🔬

And now for something completely different! Very proud to have contributed to this work on molecular plant-pest interaction led by Isabel Diaz Rodriguez at CBGP doi.org/10.1111/nph.... @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @ihsmumacsic.bsky.social #PlantScience

As a bonus, this one comes with an always welcomed predoc contract! We'll be looking for PhD candidates soon... Very grateful to @ageinves.bsky.social we'll try and get the most out of those funds!

@type3lab.bsky.social keeps going strong! We have just been awarded a Project Grant (PID2024) from the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación on the topic "Cooperative virulence in plants: mechanisms, dynamics and adaptive impact"

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

The Ralstonia solanacearum effector RipAV targets Plant U-box proteins and induces proteasomal-dependent degradation of BIK1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631554v1